About Cheri
Cheri Atkinson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with four decades of clinical experience. She helps people who are coping with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and problems with self-esteem. She also supports those facing relationship strain, parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, and major life changes.
Her work includes helping people who are managing chronic illness, physical injury, or disability. She has long experience helping caregivers and people affected by cancer, chronic pain, or long-term medical conditions.
Background and approach
She also addresses career frustration, isolation, and panic symptoms. Cheri aims to make sessions straightforward and nonjudgmental. She listens and asks practical questions to understand what matters most.
Then she and the client choose ways to build emotional coping skills and clearer communication habits. Her style adapts to each person’s needs rather than following a single formula. Sessions focus on real-life problems, small steps, and skills that can be used between meetings.
Cheri encourages clients to try short practical exercises and to notice gradual changes. People who value steady, experience-based support will find a calm, steady presence. Cheri emphasizes collaboration - clients set goals and she helps guide the process.
Her long experience means she has worked through many kinds of losses and transitions and can offer perspective alongside practical tools.
How evidence-based methods work online
Many people find structured, evidence-based approaches helpful for anxiety and mood concerns. Techniques that focus on practical skills teach ways to notice thoughts and reactions, then try small changes in behavior to reduce distress. These methods often help with panic symptoms, mood swings, and daily stress.Another helpful approach focuses on coping with chronic illness and caregiver strain. It combines problem-solving, pacing, and emotion-focused support to manage the day-to-day burdens of long-term health issues and caregiving responsibilities.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Cheri will work with clients to identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust strategies based on what fits each person’s needs and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape a plan clients can use between sessions.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people connect face to face, phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat work for check-ins or brief coaching between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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